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Bloomsbury to publish new non-fiction book by Elizabeth Gilbert
Bloomsbury has acquired a new non-fiction from by Eat Pray Love (Bloomsbury Paperbacks) author Elizabeth Gilbert.
Alexis Kirschbaum, head of Bloomsbury Trade, acquired UK and Commonwealth (excluding Canada) rights from Sarah Chalfant at The Wylie Agency, and All the Way to the River will be published by Bloomsbury on 9th September 2025.
The synopsis says: "In 2000, a friend sent Liz to see a new hairdresser named Rayya Elias. An intense and unlikely curiosity sparked between these two apparent opposites: Rayya, an East Village badass who lived boldly on her own terms but feared she was a failed artist; Liz, a married people-pleaser with a surprisingly unfettered sense of creativity. Over the years, they became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was finally laid bare: the two were in love. Unacknowledged: they were also a pair of addicts, on a collision course toward catastrophe."
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It adds: "What if the love of your life – and the person you most trusted in the world – became a danger to your sanity and wellbeing? What if the dear friend who taught you so much about your self-destructive tendencies became the unstable partner with whom you disastrously reenacted every one of them? And what if your most devastating heartbreak opened a pathway to your greatest awakening?"
Gilbert said: "I wrote All the Way to the River because I wanted to chronicle the love, grief, confusion, wildness, and transformation that I experienced around the death of my partner Rayya Elias. It took me seven years to create this book because there was so much that I needed to sort out and understand – not only about that particular love story, but about all my relationships, and why I can get so lost in them. I’m so proud of this book, and I’m excited to share it with readers all over the world, who, I hope, will find a sense of recognition, awakening and liberation within these pages."
Kirschbaum added: "With All the Way to the River, Elizabeth Gilbert has written something miraculous: at once a beautiful love story and a searing, no-holds-barred examination of self. It is a gift to have a writer of such honesty, grace, vulnerability and wisdom in our midst."
